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Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org> writes:
> Hmh, this could even be promoted as a "best packaging practice".
> Many authors do ship properly-formatted --help entries, and our
> hand-generated manpages can often linger behind the truth. Any
> strong opinions against?
The information appropriate for a man page (separate “description”,
“options”, “examples”, “files”, “environment variables”, “see
also”, etc.) is not appropriate for cramming into a ‘--help’ output,
so shouldn't be expected to be there.
I don't know how many ‘--help’ outputs actually provide all that
information in such a form that ‘help2man’ can extract it; I think the
number would be quite few. I would expect that any which do are rather
bloated as a result.
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